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Fleet Obsolete

Location within New York
Location	108 East Strand, Kingston, New York, 12401
Coordinates	41°55′13″N 73°58′44″W / 41.920333°N 73.978750°W / 41.920333; -73.978750
Website	Fleet Obsolete website

Fleet Obsolete is vessel restoration 501(c)(3) organization in Kingston, New York. Fleet Obsolete rescues and restores artifacts and boats from World War II era. Fleet Obsolete is housed in the old Cornell Shops Building on the waterfront of the Hudson River and the mouth of Rondout Creek. Cornell Steamboat Company was founded in 1827 and use the Cornell Building as a machine shop. Fleet Obsolete was founded by Robert Iannucci in 2005. Robert Iannucci purchased five PT boats build during World War II.

Fleet Obsolete boats

Fleet Obsolete Fleet as boat in restoration:

• Patrol torpedo boat PT-48 the last of the 77-foot Elco Naval Division, completed 15 September 1941
• Patrol torpedo boat PT-459, Higgins Industries, New Orleans, completed 23 March 1944
• Patrol torpedo boat PT-486, 80-foot Elco Naval Division, completed 25 November 1943
• Patrol torpedo boat PT-615 80-foot Elco PT boat, completed 25 November 1943
• U.S. Army Tug ST-2201 a Smith's Basin tugboat completed in 1956, later named Falmouth, sold 2003, then Gowanus Bay.
• Seven Packard engines that will be used for the PT Boat restorations, 1,500 shp V12 M2500 gasoline engines,

• • Former boat:
• Patrol torpedo boat PT-728, a 70 foot Annapolis Yacht Yard, Annapolis, Maryland, completed 20 October 1945, was Endeavor II, acquired in 1967 by Fleet Obsolete, sold in 2012 to Liberty Aviation Museum

Gallery

• PT-46 (No. 1); PT-40 (No. 9); PT-61; PT-48 (No. 3) and PT-45 (No. 2) during commissioning ceremonies at the newly established PT Boat Base Taboga Island on 1 August 1942. To mislead possible Japanese spies in Panama, and presumably German agents in New York, the hull numbers displayed on the cabins were changed. The eleven boats of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron TWO were numbered 0 - 10.
• PT-48 sister PT boat PT-10 in 1941
• PT-48 sister boat PT-31 at Montauk Point, Long Island in 1941
• ELCO PT Boat US Navy July 1945
• PT boat gunner mans a twin .50 caliber Browning M2 machine gun off New Guinea
• PT-48 sister boat PT-32
• Packard 3A-2500 engine

Cornell Shops Building

Cornell Shops Building was has three sections, each built at different times. The center section of the building was built in about 1875. The main section was built in 1901. The newest addition the, block building was built in 1961. Cornell used the building for its work shops. Cornell had a complex of buildings the Hudson River riverfront. The Cornell Shops Building and the boiler shop, now the Steel House Restaurant at the only two buildings of the complex remaining. The Cornell Steamboat Company was founded by Thomas Cornell in Rondout, New York in the late 1840s as a passenger ship company. Cornell Steamboat Company rebuild entire boats, engines, and boiler in the Cornell complex. Thomas Cornell arrived at Rondout in 1837 and started shipping company with his sloop. Cornell tranported coal from the Delaware and Hudson Canall. Cornell also transported wood, stone, plaster, tanning bark, animal hides, millstones, glass, charcoal, lead, and stoneware. Cornell Steamboat Company also operated a fleet of river tugboats. By 1900 Cornell was operating 60 tugs and end passenger ship service. Cornell also have a ferry service between Rhinecliff and Kingston Point/Rondout. In 1958, Cornell closed and sold it boats to New York Trap Rock Corporation. Some of the tugs operated by Cornell: Rockland County, Belle, C.W. Morse, J.G. Rose, R.G. Townsend, and Thomas Cornell.

References

1. http://www.tugboatinformation.com/company.cfm?id=220
2. https://www.fleetobsolete.org/
3. https://pacificwrecks.com/restore/usa/fleet-obsolete.html
4. http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/05459.htm
5. http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/05486.htm
6. http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/05486.htm
7. http://shipbuildinghistory.com/smallships/armytugs2.htm
8. http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/05728.htm
9. https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=204675
10. https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=204679
11. http://www.tugboatinformation.com/company.cfm?id=220

External links

• Elco PT Boat – Photos of an Elco PT boat at the Battleship Cove Naval Museum in Fall River, MA

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